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He bought damaged and used sex dolls online.
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In that time when the trunk was getting cleared out and when it became only the empty shell of what had once been so important, many things hit the match. She burned an old black negligee, a picture competing with the likes of a Vargas girl and other thin
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Fat Patty sniffs the delicate waft of peat and sidles over, proffering a grope in exchange for a few wet-lipped swigs. Hell yes.
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So where does that leave me, Roscoe Loomis wondered, dismounting his silver, aluminum steed in his sweat-soaked, spandex outfit, and, clearing the saliva from his beard he walked over, checked and smiled, learning that the bike track's timing unit showed it was Roscoe's…
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“Okay,” I say, “but my point is the only way you’d ever know if someone really loved you is if they put their life on the line when it counts. Otherwise you gotta take their word for it.”
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Your father, his father, and his before that, your mother, her mother, and all the way back have kept a tradition by chance or by will to each have a baby (or several) until…
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It is your hamsa that protects us,” the girl whispers to me.
“Then I shall give it to you,” I reply.
“No,” she says in the unselfish innocence of her youth. “It is yours and you must keep it.” I smile and kiss her dirty forehead. Eternity passes whil
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When people drastically change everything about themselves repeatedly, don't they eventually just end up alienating everyone?
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...bush tail beside him his closest comfort next to the genes...
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a dim wood-paneled stair leading to the ladies’ rooms, candle-lit.
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Anatoly Gringovitch sat in the police car returning him to the Opera House.
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No excerpts for you. Next!
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The last chick in the nest
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for the moment/
you think you know what you’re/
doing and do it.
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My stories are ramshackle; they lurch along in old sweaters with holes and missing buttons, drinking from mismatched cups and saucers.
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“And what kind of man would prefer all these dusty old books to my physical form? Who would memorize archaic incantations, when he could be whispering in my ear? Why search for the ancient splendors of metaphor, when one could be searching for the ...
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I reach out and grab a can of soup with each hand and spin them around to dive into this much-heralded sodium situation. It's a landslide. I almost smile as I put low sodium back and continue to hold tightly onto regular.
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- Never in pain and distance -
Frown on these moments,
With bitterness and vain
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She stepped inlike ice alonecould save hershe dived,slicing the wavewith her body her fresh pony tailsubmergedlike a silk scarfthen swam moving thewater awaylike whirlpoolscould hold her buoyantly save her from the headachewhispering wordsThey had been there all…
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Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.
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At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.
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Sit down at night and stare into the fire. Consider if Cupid is just another liar.
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One can’t predict the final cadence of one’s life.
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In the next week or two, the red oak/
will loose and lose its leaves
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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My father owned a penny arcade. I worked for him every summer all during my youth. My job was to hand green tickets to customers who achieved a certain score on Skee-Ball or shuffleboard. The coupons could be redeemed for merchandise which we had on display on…
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and, under foot,//
dark caves waiting/
with their unseen pigments/
adorning forgotten walls.
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you'd do him more of a favor to kill him, than place upon him the burden of such an abrupt change in travel plans.
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ghosts of the previous owners who leave a trail of whispers
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